Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86 emulator: emulate MOVNTDQ

[Avi Kivity]

On 07/11/2014 11:40 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 11/07/2014 22:05, Alex Williamson ha scritto:
> > Which will return 'true' for this whether I specify Aligned or not.  If
> > the standard convention is to make it explicit, I'm happy to add the
> > extra flag, but I think we already #GP on unaligned as implemented here.
> > Thanks,
>
> We should still specify Aligned if the corresponding AVX instruction 
> requires an aligned operand.  ISTR that this is not the case for 
> MOVNTDQ, so your patch is correct.  I'll check the SDM more carefully 
> next Monday.

The explicitly aligned/unaligned instructions have an A or a U to 
indicate this (e.g. MOVDQU = explicitly unaligned, MOVDQA = explicitly 
aligned, MOVNTDQ = default).

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